It starts with the music you already have.
Point Ampeer at your folders and it builds a library you can browse by album, artist, genre or playlist, with covers and tags. It is yours to keep, in the files you chose. New files wait in an inbox until you say they belong.
Already have playlists somewhere else?
Bring everything with you.
Import playlists from Spotify and YouTube Music exports, and your listening history from Last.fm. Back up and export whenever you like. It is always free, and your data is never locked.
Now tidy it up.
Fix a tag in a moment. Fix a whole folder in one go.
Edit tags one track at a time, free. When a whole folder needs the same fix, batch editing and the file organiser are Pro. Virtual tags work out a tag from the ones you already have, so you can filter by decade, loudness or length.
Then check what is really in the files.
See what a file really is.
The audio inspector draws a spectrogram and gives a fake lossless estimate. It is an estimate and it can be wrong, so treat it as a hint and listen. The duplicate finder ranks the copies of a song, and removing the worse ones is Pro, along with the inspector.
Every collection has gaps.
Then it shows you what is missing.
Open an artist and Ampeer builds their discography from MusicBrainz, then marks what you have and what you do not. Wishlist an album for later, or buy it from the album page.
And what you own can travel too.
Move your own files from your computer to your phone.
Transfer is Ampeer's client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network. Share a folder of your own music from a Soulseek client on your computer, find that computer from Ampeer on your phone, browse its folders and download the ones you pick straight into your library. No cable and no cloud account, and Ampeer hosts nothing. Sharing is off until you turn it on, and others on the network can see what you share, so transfer and share only files you own, bought or have the right to use.
Now let it build playlists for you.
Write a rule once. The playlist keeps itself current.
A smart playlist is a set of rules over your tags and your plays: four stars or better, FLAC only, not played this week. Add a rule, group rules with and or or, and the playlist refills itself as your library and your listening change. An Auto DJ keeps the queue going when the list ends, and you can combine playlists with and, or and except.
Now for the part that matters: pressing play.
One screen for the song you are hearing.
The cover is the controller. Swipe it left for the next track and right for the previous, swipe down to open the album, swipe up for everything about the song. The waveform is the seek bar, you drag the volume as a strip of lights, and three lamps tell you at a glance if the file is lossless, if bit perfect mode is on and if it clips.
Swipe up, and the cards open.
Everything about the song, one swipe up.
Cards slide up over the cover: the file's own numbers, the whole signal path from file to speaker with every step named, synced lyrics that follow the song, a love button and quick sound controls. Nothing is hidden in a menu, and you never leave the song.
And then it starts to learn.
Press play, and the mixes start to know you.
A new daily mix every morning, plus mixes of the favourites you forgot and the records you never got round to, all free. Open one to see every track, then press play on the lot.
And it suggests what you do not own yet.
Suggestions that come from your own plays.
Artists you might like, each with the reason beside it. They are worked out from what you play, on your phone. Say “Not for me” and an artist stays away for good, and search for one in a tap.
All that listening leaves a trail.
See what you really listened to.
Your top artists, albums and weeks, a listening clock for the hours you play most, and a year in review.
And you can show it off.
Turn what you play into a card worth sharing.
Make an image of what is playing, an album, a playlist, your top charts, a lyric, a weekly recap or your whole year. Choose a layout, a background and your colours, or take them from the album art. Every card carries a small Ampeer mark. Try it on the phone.
Make it look the way you listen.
Make it look like you.
Seven themes, from a black screen with a red dial to a daylight one. Chameleon mode takes its colours from the cover, and the theme studio, which is Pro, changes everything from the corners to the fonts. Pick one here and the whole page follows.
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Now the sound itself.
Shape the sound, or let it tune itself.
Fifteen presets are free, each with a preamp that cannot clip. Custom bands, AutoEq and Equalizer APO import, a preset per album and AutoTune, which fits a profile to your headphones, are Pro. Crossfeed softens the stereo image for headphones.
Quiet records and loud ones, levelled.
Quiet and loud records, levelled.
ReplayGain levels records by track or by album, and never pushes the sound past its peak. Loudness range and true peak show for every track.
Now practise the hard bar.
Loop a passage and practise it.
Drag A and B over the waveform and the loop starts and ends without a click. One loop at a time is free. Saved loops are Pro.
And when you are done, hear it untouched.
Every step between the file and your ears, in the open.
Everything that touches the sound runs in one chain, and Now Playing shows it step by step. Gapless playback and crossfade are built in. Pick your output device. Bit perfect mode sends samples unchanged to a USB DAC, with resampling and dither switched off. Playback resumes when your earbuds reconnect.
Words, shows and stations too.
Words, shows and stations, in the same place.
Synced lyrics follow the song, from an .lrc file or the lyrics in its tag, with an editor to set the timing yourself. Subscribe to podcasts with rules for each feed, such as auto download and keeping the latest episodes. Tune internet radio with live titles.
And what you play can go where you already listen.
Offline plays are not lost.
Send your listens to Last.fm and ListenBrainz. Plays made offline queue up and send when you are back.
And all of it runs fast.